Anticipate Not ... Examples in everyday life

[BlueKiwi]

Im not so sure about that. Fear can be a good thing. Fear of getting burned by fire keeps you from putting your hand in fire. Fear or being in an accident helps to make you be more careful. And, how can someone be courageous if there is no fear to overcome? Being courageous doesn't mean you don't fear anything, it means that in spite of your fear, you do what needs to be done to save someone else or whatever.

I agree - just as anticipation has good and bad uses, so does fear. Maybe we need another thread for Fear ?

 

[ELT]

I'm not so sure about that. Fear can be a good thing. Fear of getting burned by fire keeps you from putting your hand in fire. Fear or being in an accident helps to make you be more careful. And, how can someone be courageous if there is no fear to overcome? Being courageous doesn't mean you don't fear anything, it means that in spite of your fear, you do what needs to be done to save someone else or whatever.

Also, psychopaths seem to have no fear, or, at least, not a lot of fear. Something to think about.

fwiw

I agree too. I would say that it's not much about the emotion in itself, but more about the context - the third force - in which it presents itself.

Fear can indeed allow other emotions, like anger, to be triggered to save our lives.

There's an example on the matter taken by JBP, about the "capacity for anger being something that gives you force".
The example being one of chasing a cat with a broom (from 49:00).

The moral is : "Fear will facilitate either freezing or escape, but sometimes fear isn't the right response and anger will suppress fear.
[...] anger as an antidote to the terror that would otherwise freeze you."

It could be for another thread indeed.

 

[BlueKiwi]

I agree too. I would say that it's not much about the emotion in itself, but more about the context - the third force - in which it presents itself.

I was holding back about the aspect of the context of state of mind and emotion with this discussion, but it seems context is important here - be it with anticipation, fear and other emotions.

Maybe this helps :

A: Emotion that limits is an impediment to progress. Emotion is also necessary to make progress in 3rd density. It is natural. When you begin to separate limiting emotions based on assumptions from emotions that open one to unlimited possibilities, that means you are preparing for the next density.

 

[ELT]

I come back after thinking, while doing a NeurOptimal session to be honest.

I feel like as long as a goal is set to keep the core needs fulfilled (ref. Healing Developmental Trauma book), it might be a way of not implying any anticipation or wishful thinking of any sort.
I see a kind of legitimacy in this, as our core needs are necessary for us to operate as much functionnally as possible to Be, and accomplish our learning mission.

So yes, it seems that we need to set an aim to move forwards in this reality ;
and I see a self-regulating healthy loop in linking that aim to nourishing the core needs (a simple need could be interpreted differently, as for the needs drug-addicts have due to their unhealthy dependancy).

In this way, we would still be respecting the intrisic-hyppothalamus-dopaminergic system condition of our machines (I've really been searching to make sense of JBP lectures recently haha) to move forwards, while not falling into its traps.
(among the MANY books I still have to read the Molecule of More, I'll surely find more thinking material on the subject)

Does it make sense until now ?

 

[Menna]

From my knowledge going off of what I remember the C's saying is that anticipation closes off one from ALL possibilities thus you are limiting what is presented to you or given to you or what you have access too. I think anticipation comes from a place of wanting to control and if one has little faith they anticipate what they would be ok with? Anticipation may also come from fear because one is planning for risks...This is something I have to remind myself of monthly is to walk into things OPEN and stop anticipating trying to control the future with my limited mind its sending out a limiting frequency to the universe. This is my take at my current level.

 

[ELT]

This is from the Casswiki :

Anticipation and non-anticipation

The Cassiopaean material discusses anticipation in relation to following one’s path or interacting with reality at large. There two sides to the discussion: the first is that one should always anticipate attack in order to avoid problems by preparation; the second is that one should not be fixated on any particular imagined outcome of one’s creative efforts or intent, because such fixation or anticipation restricts the ’creative flow.’

This is the closest the Cassiopaeans come to discussing the idea that ’you create your own reality’, or ’YCYOR’.

Intent can invite realization, but anticipation of any particular realization metaphysically nullifies the intent. This relates to the distinction between service to others and service to self. Anticipation is expecting the self to be confirmed, expecting to bend the Universe to one’s will and thus falls on the side of the service to self principle. Intent is non-personal and can be generally creative in the service to others sense.
Anticipation does however have its uses in a world of service to self, but this use is for the service to others candidate principally in predicting and blocking possible foreseeable difficulties. This takes the form of simple physical or mental preparedness.

An alternative formulation of the idea could be that if one thinks one must have more money, the idea of having more money is projected into the future and the idea of not having enough money is asserted for the present. In the reverse, if one thinks one could get mugged and therefore avoids the side alley after dark, one asserts that one could be mugged in the future and is safe in the present and to give this idea physical expression even avoids places where muggings are the most common. If any part of mind really influences reality by metaphysically attracting events, it is not the conscious wishing part. If this part has effect on reality, the effect is rather in selecting what is an appropriate perception, hence blocking much information that would otherwise be available. This too has a survival oriented role but it is overexpressed in people who will only accept that which conforms to their assumptions or anticipations.

Another way of thinking about this would be the idea that ignoring something is an invitation for experientially learning this something. This is generally so in the case of ignoring warnings of impending danger.
The ’all giving Universe’ responds by allowing one to experience the danger.

We could say that uses of anticipation are defensive and rooted in knowledge of possible dangers. Anticipation can also be used in a controlling sense when people make precise plans about carrying out a project that has little to do with openness to the ’creative principle.’ Such activity is mostly concerned with meeting external requirements or getting confirmation for oneself being in control.

Having internal discipline is a somewhat different matter. Discipline implies staying the course and being consistent, while not ”anticipating” specific outside effects as a result of merely expecting them.

The greatest creative contribution in the service to others mode can be realized in a state of not Cassiopaean Experiment 409 anticipating outcomes or effects while expressing one’s fundamental nature or gift. Much work may be required to properly know this gift and where its use is appropriate. It is not a simple process of self-expression, as it includes doing this in accordance with objective reality. Openness to reality is what makes constructive and non-restricting response possible. Without this objectivity and state of non-assumption one is again forcing one’s interpretation, even if unconsciously, on reality.

Acting completely on behalf of universal principles and on an unbiased perception of reality, without any desire for the self is vanishingly rare. Still, combining intent with accurate perception can lead one to entirely unexpected openings and synchronicities. Placing too many restrictions on what are acceptable openings may simply lead one to miss them. This is more a manifestation of obsession than objective seeing.

This idea is tied to the adage that knowledge protects. Knowledge of risks makes preparing for them possible and may offer some psychic protection as well. Obsession with specific results is not knowledge, for it imposes one’s subjectivity on the world and thus does not protect, but rather blinds one to reality and leaves one open to dangers. Thus flexibility and objective perception are key.